What you believe drives (and limits) what you can achieve. How you think about your work, clients, people, prospects, and problems tends to drive how you feel, the actions you take, and the results you get. Consider any enduring difficulty within your leadership, and you’ll likely find one or more of your own beliefs worth changing. In fact, left unchecked, such patterns of thought can keep you—and those you lead—stuck. Take the time to trace less-than-stellar progress to your thinking about the situation, substitute higher-performing beliefs, and new solutions will flow.
Self-coaching:
- Identify a problem you’d like to solve, or an enduring difficulty within your leadership.
- List your beliefs about the people, issues, and opportunities involved with it.
- Challenge the quality and accuracy of these beliefs, applying a “pass/fail” standard to each one, and develop possible higher-performing beliefs for those that don’t hold up under such scrutiny.
- Put those alternatives into practice.
David Peck
Executive Coach
and President
Leadership
Unleashed
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